GAMES
1. Inside Konami: public shaming, tyrannical management and punitive reassignment
+ Report: Konami’s treatment of employees called into question
2. ‘League of Legends’ hero killed and unplayable
3. ‘Resident Evil 2’ fan remake gets Capcom’s attention
4. Xbox One: home of the N64 classics?
5. ‘War Thunder’ producer takes YouTube channel hostage with DMCA takedowns
6. ‘Necromancer’ remains in limbo 15 months after successful crowd-funding campaign
7. Sony: 25.3 million PS4s shipped worldwide to-date
8. Activision Blizzard results up even as WoW subs plummet
9. Disney’s interactive revenue falls by $58m
10. HTC invests $10 million in VR dev community
11. EA beats guidance but sales slip
12. Marvel: Contest of Champions tops $100 million revenue
14. The $18 million Dota 2 International 2015 marks the end of an era
15. Report: The International halted by DDoS attack
16. The business of eSports in numbers
17. The Newest Job in Sports: Videogame Coach
18. Destiny Players Average 100 Hours of Gameplay Each
19. Evolution’s DriveClub passes 2m sales
20. “AR will be the biggest technological revolution in our lifetimes”
21. Racism and anti-war sentiment serve as the backdrop for ‘Mafia III’
23. Ronda Rousey Loves Pokemon
24. Leland Yee associate throws him under the bus in federal racketeering case
DIGITAL
1. The Gawker Controversy + Aftermath
3. Access Copyright, Education, PWC: With due respect to PricewaterhouseCoopers
4. New study shows Spain’s “Google tax” has been a disaster for publishers
5. Judge awards WordPress owner damages in false DMCA takedown case
6. 9th Circuit Rejects VPPA Claims Against Netflix For Intra-Household Disclosures
7. Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (EFF)
8. Microsoft Launches Special ‘Scott McNealy’ Edition Of Windows
11. Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal News Shows Why Privacy is the True Bedrock of an “Open and Connected World” (Zeynep Tufekci)
12. Facebook kills proposed user data policy after game and app publishers panicked
13. Inside the failure of Google+, a very expensive attempt to unseat Facebook
15. NSA report shows China hacked 600+ US targets over 5 years
17. Mississippi’s All Up in Your Google Activity (ACLU)
+ Russia could ban same-sex emoji under ‘gay propaganda’ laws
19. Facing Islamic State threat, Iraq digitizes national library
20. Google to France: We Won’t Forget It For You Wholesale
21. ISPs argue that they are ‘information services,’ not ‘telecommunication services’ in federal court
22. UK peer calls for universal Internet delete button, may also want unicorns
23. Daily Dot Latest To ‘Keep Conversation Moving Forward’ By Not Letting Site Visitors Comment At All
24. FCC has already gotten 2,000 “net neutrality” complaints
25. Windows 10 upgrade resets your default browser to Edge; Mozilla is very unhappy
26. From Gamergate to Cecil the lion: internet mob justice is out of control
28. Self-Defense Against Robots and Drones (Froomkin & Colangelo)
30. GitHub raises $250 million at $2 billion valuation
31. Thousands of Exhausted Things, or why we dedicated MoMA’s collection data to the public domain
32. Copying And Sharing Was Always A Natural Right; Restricting Copying Never Was
33. Amazon’s Policies Rile Self-Published Authors
34. Do you date people who watch Netflix?
CREATIVITY
1. Freedom Of The Press Foundation Sues DOJ Over Its Secret Rules For Spying On Journalists
2. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter explains why he recently resigned from the Toronto Star
3. And Now Here Comes Every Other Comic Convention With Trademark Apps For The Generic ‘Comic Con’
4. No copyright in individual contributions to a film
5. Did Philadelphia inadvertently step on First Amendment and VARA in painting over Cosby Mural
6. Two Nine-Year-Olds’ Magnificent Open Letter to Disney About Racial and Gender Stereotypes
7.Less Money, Mo’ Music & Lots Of Problems: A Look At The Music Biz
8. Startup Accelerators For The Music Industry Seem To Be Popping Up Everywhere
9. Stakes Is High: Drake Ghostwriting Accusations Matter More Than You Think
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